The temperature on May 18, 1914 was between 10.2 °C and 21.7 °C and averaged 15.9 °C. There was 14.0 hours of sunshine (89%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
May 15 » During a poker game at the Gaiety Theatre in Galesburg, Illinois, comedian Art Fisher nicknames Chicko, Harpo, Groucho, and Gummo Marx.
August 5 » In Cleveland, Ohio, the first electric traffic light is installed.
September 5 » World War I: First Battle of the Marne begins. Northeast of Paris, the French attack and defeat German forces who are advancing on the capital.
September 22 » A German submarine sinks three British cruisers over a seventy-minute period, killing almost 1500 sailors.
October 5 » World War I: An aircraft successfully destroys another aircraft with gunfire.
October 9 » World War I: The Siege of Antwerp comes to an end.
Day of marriage May 10, 1944
The temperature on May 10, 1944 was between 0.9 °C and 18.2 °C and averaged 10.1 °C. There was 5.0 hours of sunshine (32%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the north-northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1941 to February 23, 1945 the cabinet Gerbrandy II, with Prof. dr. P.S. Gerbrandy (ARP) as prime minister.
February 22 » World War II: American aircraft mistakenly bomb the Dutch towns of Nijmegen, Arnhem, Enschede and Deventer, resulting in 800 dead in Nijmegen alone.
June 9 » World War II: The Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, occupied by Finland since 1941.
June 13 » World War II: Germany launches the first V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs strike their targets.
October 13 » World War II: The Soviet Riga Offensive captures the city.
October 15 » World War II: Germany replaces the Hungarian government after it announces an armistice with the Soviet Union.
October 27 » World War II: German forces capture Banská Bystrica during Slovak National Uprising thus bringing it to an end.
Day of death May 8, 1985
The temperature on May 8, 1985 was between 12.1 °C and 20.5 °C and averaged 16.2 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.7 hours of sunshine (37%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from Thursday, November 4, 1982 to Monday, July 14, 1986 the cabinet Lubbers I, with Drs. R.F.M. Lubbers (CDA) as prime minister.
March 3 » Arthur Scargill declares that the National Union of Mineworkers' national executive voted to end the longest-running industrial dispute in Great Britain without any peace deal over pit closures.
March 20 » Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.
May 20 » Radio Martí, part of the Voice of America service, begins broadcasting to Cuba.
May 31 » United States–Canada tornado outbreak: Forty-one tornadoes hit Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, and Ontario, leaving 76 dead.
July 19 » The Val di Stava dam collapses killing 268 people in Val di Stava, Italy.
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